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Reading .mcn files?
(lemmy.world)
Hello y'all,
I need to get some information out of a .mcn file that is used by the Cary WinUV program (for windows XP), I know the file contains the info we're looking for but it's not readable on a text editor as per screenshot (the same thing appears via OSS - code and cat). Same for Nano which gives me a lot of tiny amongi.
Cary WinUV for some reason doesn't display the information we want, who know what they were thinking.
Anyone know a way to read the characters missing?
EDIT: Thanks everyone, I solved by saving it into csv through Cary WinUV but that may not work for everyone so thanks for all the replies
hexdumpcomes stock with most distros, no editing features, buthexdump -C filenamewill at least let you see what’s in the fileNULcharacters (\00in first screenshot or^@in the nano screenshot)NULcharacters, text for the name, andSOH(^A) terminating the field name – then a padded line for the field values (values are probably meant to be fixed length)perlandsed, they were originally designed for situations like this, trying to get meaningful data out of disparate file formats